“Don’t worry about the bits that you can’t understand. Sit back and let the words wash around like music.” Quote can be found in a sequel to a very famous children’s book – Roald Dahl is of Scandinavian descent but was baptised in Cardiff in 1916. He served in the RAF during...
and the two month long Siege of Pembroke ended in Royalist defeat. The Royalists lost this war in 1649, and King Charles was executed by parliament - with John Jones Maesygarnedd signing his death warrant. Oliver Cromwell, a man of Welsh descent and a Welsh landowner, was named Charles...
Each descent was steep and made more difficult by the foot placings on rock being wet and concealed by heather or bracken. Each footstep had to be carefully placed, making the task physically tiring and mentally taxing. Such were the weather conditions that we had to modify our intended route...